What is wrong with fangirls? Nothing

Apparently, someone decided to sell a T-shirt that reads, “I like my fangirls the way I like my coffee… I hate coffee.” I can understand hating coffee. Well, not actually hating it because if someone is really that passionate in their feelings of dislike about a beverage, they probably need help. There are a lot of drinks that I don’t like, but none that I would expend energy on hating. However, that’s not the point. The point is that colloquially I understand when someone strongly expresses dislike for something that really doesn’t matter. I do not understand hating fangirls at all. What exactly is there to hate? It would be like hating girls who play video games, which I guess happens according to Natalie Whipple. If you are a fanboy or a gamer, chances are that you will be happier dating someone who shares those interests. The shirt might make sense if were being sold at a sports clothes warehouse, but it doesn’t make any sense sold at convention that supposedly celebrates geekdom. While Greg Rucka felt the shirt as an attack on his daughter and women in general, I just can’t imagine any real geek buying the shirt. After all, the raddest time I ever had playing Dungeons and Dragons involved when there were women playing, too. Every convention, fandom and person in those fandoms would suffer greatly if there were no fangirls. I don’t know what the T-shirt maker was thinking. I don’t know exactly who would buy that shirt. What I do know is that every universe would suffer if the women were removed from them. No more Rose or Amy Pond, no more Black Widow or Sif, no Buffy, no Willow, no… The list of kick ass women in the worlds of fandom is long and varied, and it is only because of fangirls that fanboys are able to continue to enjoy their fandoms.